Joe Bonamassa's Top 5 Guitar Solos Everyone Should Learn 

This is why these clips are great. It reminded me I never finished watching the full interview. 😆

Rick, u should have way more subs than the BS of many other channels

I was not subscribed. Now I am. Happy days

Better guest…? You have Joe Bonamassa (!!) the only way to get better guests is to have God send Jimi and Stevie Ray back for a interview.

nothing from Slash? :D

Thank you! My man!

What is the name of the second Free song he played? Wishing Well?

@@brockallenmusic walk in my shadow was the second free song he played it's from the debut album by free called Tons of sobs

​@@brockallenmusic Walk In My Shadows

INSANE tone, every thing he plays sounds incredible in this clip

I mean his guitar probably costs more than my house. So that’s helps…

​@@tijuanaiguana190Don't kid yourself! He's going to sound better on an off the rack guitar, then most players, using one of JB's best! Gear is secondary to the talent of the musician or athlete!

It's bc he uses the controls on the guitar and pick attack to get the sound he wants in his head. Something amp model/settings alone cannot achieve. Guitar volume never on 10 is huge for Joe's tone it allows the fundamental of the note to shine through better.

@@tijuanaiguana190 I hate this shit. The guitar is a solved problem. Gear doesn't make someone any better.

Check out Joe Bonamassa's work with Black Country Communion. You will love it! Especially the live album.

@@swanneez5246 I actually had listened to them before not knowing Joe Bonamassa was the guitarist in that band. Loved the sound.

Similar, former metalhead slowly turning into a blues guy and Joe is a fantastic gateway drug to a lot of great blues.

You might be on the road to being a bluesman. It happens.

@@user-lv7ph7hs7l Of course I know who Joe is, but I'm not really familiar with his blues playing, I've listened to Gary Moore a lot more, but this little interview has kindled my interest.

Yes, Joe always gives props and lavishes praise on those that came before him and that he gleaned his licks from. People knock him for whatever, but I find him humble and his interest as a historian, to be genuine.

Worth noting Ronnie Van Zan lead singer/songwriter for Lynyrd Skynyrd loved the band "Free".

ok boomer

I feel like that’s a huge things across the blues artists, almost all of them pay a lot of homage for those before them

Yes, the nod to Kossoff, and JB can't really do Kossoff is appreciated. I know Kossoff 's nephew, looks just like him. Can't play guitar. 😅

It does. His live playing doesn't always do it for me, but here he is at his best. Black Country Communion was great tho

@@frankrichards3089 Song of Yesterday if released in the 70s would be one of the most iconic rock songs. The canon of ~7-9 minute songs was just too saturated already and barely anyone knows it!

That’s effortless for every professional guitarist.

no my good sir, it isn’t

​@@yksityinenoma7821Not I your lifetime.

Me too, me three and me four!

Peter green is in my pantheon

I first heard the Duster Bennett version. Then I heard Peter's version. That opening is the perfect fit for the song. It is a master class in feel. It also teaches a lesson an old teacher tried to impart to me. "Soloing is like talking. If you say too much nobody listens. So learn to stop talking and you'll learn how to solo."

He never mentions the maestro Peter Green. Peter had a direct connection from a higher power. It’s no surprise Jimmy page Modded his les Paul gifted by Joe Walsh to emulate greens sound (page mentions in 2005 interview) and BB King regarded him as a goat

Peter Green was the King!

Gary Moore as well...

Not so much knowledge If you don’t mention Gary Moore and Peter Green on top5 solos.

@@BluesRockAcademy Really ? there's dozens more he could have mentioned, this isn't rehearsed, and everyone's favourites are going to be different. So you're comment about "knowledge" is insignificant....

Respect

My guitar teacher had an early sun burst Les Paul, iirc it was late 60s model, but could've been 70s. Thing had been around the world with him. Was bloody gorgeous and weighed a ton!!! Beautiful to play too

@@situationunchanged9733 To me and from what Bonamassa said himself what makes the old guitars "Better is a combination of things. The materials used back then which were of a higher grade not like the cheaper stuff most use these days. and also the guitar has been played a LOT! So the parts are aging from playing it, the parts are a better grade and things like that is what makes them sound warmer and richer. There is nothing wrong with a Murphy Lab aged Les Paul but the aging was not done by playing it. That is why those old Japan made Les paul's from Greko, Burny,etc sound as good as a Gibson. the Japanese were using the same exact materials to build them and they used actual Gibson's to make them.

Why?

Cause he’s a fucking legend, that’s why.

@NiKo-lh2nq dire straits were garbage though

@@Two_Seat_Pete_FatA55 you might not like the band that’s totally fair, but can’t deny that Knopfler is objectively an incredible guitarist

@@NiKo-lh2nq he is very good indeed

Wow! Amazing… Blind Faith was there, then gone. A rare concert.

Yes, I agree but the "mushy peas" addition makes the point which is possibly lost on a great many of those watching and hopefully encourages people to "dig deeper".

And somehow made it an SRV tone on a Les Paul 😮.

You mean power chords ?

@@timboland7767 2-string 5ths. See 3:46

@@timboland7767 Root and 5th, power chord...

​@@timboland7767The two terms are interchangeable...

He said he does it if he expects to so bends, as it gives you better vibrato control but you should still try to use the pinky as much as possible.

Although Joe's version of "I can't do it" is a million times better than everyone else's "I can't do it"! 😂

I'm Yarzo Spatflute and I play a '59 Strat hardtail built by hand by Leo through a wall of Dumbles, Altec Voice of Gods and racks of effects that require their own zip code and Guess how it sounds. Skill outdoes equipment.

He really does.

ABSOLUTELY! When you look at so many loser bands and poor musicians in there, FREE is one of the greatest ever rock bands!

I hate mushy peas. Guess I’m just a maverick, that’s how I roll.

Oh, I do too. It’s just that it looks wrong if they’re not on the plate. 🤣@@claymor8241